Security researchers have built a master key that exploits a design flaw in a popular and widely used hotel electronic lock system, allowing unfettered access to every room in the building. The ...

Researchers have discovered that hacking into a hotel room can be done with pretty much any electronic key lying around. Master keys for hotel rooms can be created “out of thin air,” F-Secure, a ...

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The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap ...

They got in by cracking the security on a high-end electronic key-card system The hack: Researchers at F-Secure, a Finnish cybersecurity company, breached the defenses of a hotel lock system known as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. A laptop theft from a hotel room a decade ago sparked a mission ...

Criminals in the Phoenix area are stealing hotel guests' belongings by exploiting a known software flaw in electronic room locks, demonstrating how an unpatched security flaw can have real-life ...

A 4-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, admitted to bowing to extortion after ransomware locked up the computer running the hotel’s electronic key lock system. This was ...

A ransomware infection has wreaked havoc at Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt, a four-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, on the lip of the Turracher Höhe mountain lake. The incident took place earlier this ...

VingCard has completed installation of its Signature RFID door locks and VISION hotel locking system at the new China World Summit Wing Hotel Beijing, located in the China World Tower. With Signature ...

Gemalto announces that its operating system integrated in the Sealys electronic passports achieved the fastest reading capabilities in the independent Interoperability Tests conducted at the Security ...

Criminals in the Phoenix area are stealing hotel guests' belongings by exploiting a known software flaw in electronic room locks, demonstrating how an unpatched security flaw can have real-life ...